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STARBUCKS should be banned from railway stations unless it pays its taxes, train drivers’ union Aslef urged Network Rail today.
Starbucks has 1,000 shops in Britain and paid just £4 million in tax despite raking in £387m in sales.
It was revealed that the company’s European business paid a paltry £18.3m in tax last year. Meanwhile it paid its Seattle-based parent company £348m in dividends collected from brand licensing.
Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan said: “Passengers already pay fares — and taxes — and it’s wrong to ask them to subsidise global corporations such as Starbucks.
“This is a company — and there are many others — that makes an enormous amount of money in this country, but chooses to declare its profits in other places.
“We need proper transparency for tax purposes because, at the moment, the company’s accounts are as murky as the coffee it serves.
“Starbucks and all the other companies that have shops on stations benefit from the infrastructure, so it is only right that they pay their fair share.”
